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3 New VR Arcades Hit Utah, Ohio, and Washington, DC

Road to VR

That’s the idea behind three new VR Arcades that have opened in Utah, Ohio, and Washington, DC, which are leveraging the HTC Vive as the go-to ‘out-of-home’ VR platform for such activities. NotionVR currently features 14 HTC Vive games and is taking reservations on their website. notionVR – Washington, DC.

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Neurosurgery Patients Take A VR Tour Of Their Own Brains

VRScout

Ohio-based company Surgical Theater is well aware of the common reactions people facing brain surgery may often have, and are offering a solution that would use VR to dull – and in some cases – erase parts of that fear. “I was losing just a little more sleep each night and fear set in,” said Kumpitsch.

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USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Founded in Dayton, Ohio in 1979, Full Sail University launched as an audio recording workshop. The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA)’s Central Florida Chapter took centre stage with Full Sail University in late March. After successes in enrolment, it later expanded to its Winter Park-based campus in 1989.

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Mr. Mercedes VR Escape Room Hits Comic-Con

VRScout

The series picks up a year after Brady Hartsfield’s thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Mercedes like Finders Keepers, Mercy General Hospital and Brady’s lair. Since the incident, Hartsfield has been hospitalized in a vegetative state.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. DOCTORS IN OHIO USE VR TO TRAIN FOR TRAUMA CARE. …and just a few more.

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How VR Saves Lives in the OR

VRScout

A Cleveland, Ohio based startup, Surgical Theater is transforming the way surgeons consult with patients, plan complex surgical procedures, and use medical imaging to navigate during surgery and post-operative review. University of California, San Franciso, medical school is using Organon for the HTC Vive.

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